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AXA’s Summit master trust has been slammed by disgruntled advisers of financial planning group Monitor Money, with many regretting the decision to roll the Assure wrap se...

Financial planning

In the current financial planning industry, Paul Resnik argues that everyone is unhappy. But don’t worry – he has some solutions....

Financial planning

It has been an eventful year for Garrisons, with a change in the structure of the parent company being the most significant. John Wilkinson reports....

Financial planning

Advisers in AXA dealer groups will no longer have a remuneration bias to recommend AXA’s own funds management products under a raft of changes to the group’s fee model an...

Financial planning

Financial services training and education provider Tribeca Corporation has posted strong revenue growth for the September quarter on the back of the rising education and ...

People & Products

Former Assirt head of distribution and product, Rebecca Jacques, who tendered her resignation from the research house on Monday and left later that day has joined alterna...

Financial planning

Fund managers accepting deposits or funds from the public will be slugged with additional costs and increased compliance demands if new international due diligence guidel...

Financial planning

The CARM group has struck a deal to integrate its goals-based financial planning software with hub provider InvestmentLink’s e-Portfolio service to provide a new complian...

Financial planning

The Federal Government will today gazette amended superannuation portability regulations after having reached agreement with the Australian Democrats on the consolidation...

Financial planning

AMP Limited has cleared one of the final hurdles to the demerger of its Australian and UK operations, following receipt today of ‘in principle’ approval from the Australi...

Superannuation

With all the attention self-managed superannuation funds are attracting from the Australian Taxation Office, are your clients really better off running their own fund? Be...

People & Products

ING has ended months of industry speculation in relation to management of its RetireInvest dealer group with the appointment of former Snowball Group general manager dist...

Superannuation

Financial advisers do not need to gain extra qualifications to advise on self-managed super funds (SMSFs), apart from the requirements of the Financial Services Reform Ac...

Financial planning

Small to medium financial advisory practices should approach business planning from another angle, says Chris Dionne....

Financial planning

Blind client trust and internal procedural failings within financial planning firms are the two over-riding factors allowing fraud to go unchecked, an anticipated report ...

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